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Medicines management support to older people: understanding the context of systems failure.

August 6, 2014

Rogers S, Martin G, Rai G. BMJ Open. 2014;4(7):e005302.

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This study used the accident causation model to determine latent causes of medication errors requiring hospital admission in a sample of older patients in the United Kingdom. The authors identified concerns around decision-making, recording information, and acting on abnormal test results.

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